Humans are weird, aren't they?
From taking selfies at the gym to the way we hang out with people we actively dislike during festive periods - the quirks of human nature are all but normal -even to us. But what would aliens make of our modern world if they ended up renting an apartment here?
This was the thought process that led me to create a new Instagram webcomic exploring that very concept.
'Lessons in Humanity' comic strips follow the day-to-day life of Will as he attempts to help his roommate, an alien named Armstrong, unravel the mysteries of human society.
A mix of satirical and silly humor, this funny comic ultimately aims to showcase how mind-boggling human behavior and how bad the problems with society really are if you think about it hard enough. Below is a selection of topics the funny drawings have already touched upon, find more on the comic's official Instagram page.
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Homophobia
Another significant factor in homophobia is that straight men are afraid of gay men treating them the way they treat women....
It all starts at home. Give your children fruit and veggies instead of sweets, they'll likely grow up to have a healthy diet. If you give kids sea weed, snails or frog legs and so on, they're going to grow up thinking this is food, it's ok to eat it. The same goes for moral values, behaviours, standards, stereotypes, etc etc. So just be a smart and good parent, and you help make a better world.
Problem is, some people intentionally teach their kids to hate and be hateful. And they think they're right to do so.
Load More Replies...Homophobia is about the demotion of non-traditional gender roles. So saying "Carrots are not allowed to touch the peas, because it's disgusting and unnatural, even though it's not at all true." Might be an apt way of explain it.
What they said certainly is apt as well. It is more along the lines of " I dont like gay marriage/relationships, will not be in one because they are "icky" to me, so I will keep others from entering into them as well by voting and fighting against their rights to be in a marriage"....Yes, the non-traditional roles are a factor, but so is the "gay marriage is not for ME, the heterosexual, so you cant have it either" idea, too.
Load More Replies...People think my room mate is homosexual even though he positions himself as a heterosexual. Recently one of my relatives invited me for a dinner and board games evenibg so I asked whether he minds my room mate be there as well. He said it's fine but proceeded by asking whether is he gay (and it's not the first time this question is asked). I said that it's stupid to ask that over and over from me, we just share a flat and it's not my goal to investigate and prove he is anything other than what he cares to say about him. I asked why it bothered him so much? And he couldn't provide any reason besides well i'm not comfortable with this kind of stuff and that he doesnt want "these kind of people" around his son. Sounds like sexuality is some kind of an illness one can catch by just talking to a person or that homosexual people will immediately try to converse whoever different into their "movement" or whatever. It makes me mad that this kind of thinking exists and is so thick it won't even consider reasoning
Well that's not the only factor. It's also religion and society's morals that have been taught to people. It's not always what was depicted here. Like since some people have been taught since childhood that marrying the same gender is unthinkable, they'll reject it because they see it as morally wrong and as a backward function. As someone who grew up in a homophobic environment I can say this as a fact.
WOW, the comments about this comic goes to all different places, amazing.
Bad Attitude
Wifi
True. However this is one thing that needs repeating more than infinity.
Load More Replies...Food Production
The guys have to spread the whole field, though. The amount of chemicals they'd get directly on them would be much higher than what they're spraying on each plant, which will also be less than what we'll actually ingest.
Yes and over years chemicals like ddp build up not to mention that when it rains it gets into the waterways and we end up drinking it and getting it into other food chains. So if they need a suit I can't see how this is going to end well.
Load More Replies...Food production in whole is a pretty gross thing.... And "energy production"
Load More Replies...January
Foreign Aid
Or sharing a picture of a starving child that says " 1 like= 1 prayer "
Yeah ok, THATS just" plain pervert fishing for likes cuz no life"
Load More Replies...Homelessness
I have a couple issues with this one. First, it's stupid to assume you know what someone who you don't even know is going to do. Second, the "irony" this cartoon was meant to portray is also stupid because the man is paying for his own drugs which doesn't make it comparable to not giving someone money to buy drugs. It's not hypocritical of me to buy a car for myself but decline giving someone else money that "they'll just spend it on a car".
I don't give money to homeless people either, not in the US anyway. Too many of them are drug addicts or just faking homelessness. I'm sure some are actually struggling, but the bad apples ruined it for me. My husband's home country the homeless beg for food more so than money.
Oh so he shouldn’t spend the money he worked to earn to have a drink and he should give it away to someone who didn’t work for it so that they can buy drugs? Got it
Body Image
To be fair, lost of people aren't overweight because they overeat, but because they eat poorly. Heavily processed meals full of calories and sugars are cheaper and easier.
Yeah, you can get cheap and filling but also really unhealthy food from McDonald's while healthy salads etc cost a lot more money
Load More Replies...Generally Good
It's emotional abuse when baby animals are taken from their mothers. Torture for both parties, just as it would be if someone took a baby from its mother without needing to.
Load More Replies...When you stand back at look at it, humans are some of the worst creatures ever x_x
maybe, but humans are also only creatures here, who saving another species, helping r******d or old ones, trying save this planet, etc. ...its kind of paradox, you know :)
Load More Replies...In my country and i assume we are not alone in this, every easter if you go in "farmer's market" you see hundreds of farmers selling lambs. Some are already dead and cut, some are alive but with their legs tied up, and crying. And if you buy the lamb, they will sacrifice it. I think that is torture for the animal. Also, taking a lamb or any other baby animal from its mother is torture for both the baby and the mother. The time between taking the baby from the mother and the animal being sacrificed is horrible for the animal... They are transported in huge trucks with barely no space and they are scared and cry and then are sacrificed... i think this is all torture for the poor animals...
Load More Replies...Please avoid making comments that are incorrect. There is absolutely no torture in these animals unless for a small percentage that is not indicative of the other 99% of the industry. Lambs are weaned from their mothers at an age when they can eat enough to sustain themselves (just like humans). They are then either taken into the breeding stock to live out their lives or to a feed lot to be fed and cared for. They are not abused and are medicated if they become ill. At a certain age they are then taken to a slaughter facility in which they are humanely stunned (they have no idea it is happening). It is against the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter for any sort of mistreatment. https://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/humane-methods-slaughter-act
You are right!!! I forgot all of us live in the USA where every animal is humanely slaughtered!
Load More Replies...So if humans have to be "generally good" we all need to starve or to become plant eaters, but then we won't be "generally good", because we are eating away the nature and all the plants, which give us air and help us not burn away by uv light. Double standard... sheesh.
We would at least be better than we are now. The animals we keep for meet eat many times more plants than we do. I'm just making up numbers now, but this is the principle: a cow eats 100kg food before it's slaughtered. That meat only feeds 10 people. Then 10kg of crops that could've fed many people now only feeds one. So you see if everyone went vegan there would also be more food, and therefore less starvation. Also being vegan is not about being perfect, it's about being as good as we can.
Load More Replies...Festive Get-Togethers
This opinion is really common in some countries? Because for me is complete normal forget or ignore lot of people from my past...
I think the whole purpose of Christmas is stupid. We all spend money exchanging gifts when we could have just kept the money and bought whatever the item was ourselves. We teach kids that if you're good all year a made up man miraculously visits all the "good children" in the world and gives them gifts. Rich kids apparently get tablets and bikes while poor kids get cheap dolls and socks. But yay Christmas
Beer
I disagree. Everything is for people. Yes, the *excess* of alcohol brings out the bad sides of people. Yes, alcohol addiction IS horrible. But generally, in reasonable amounts, it's just another not too harmful and rather pleasant invention.
Load More Replies...Alcohol just reveals what people usually keep inside. It removes restraint, which some people apparently need more than others.
I don't drink alcohol, not just coz it tastes foul (done lots of research) but because it removes inhibitions. My inhibitions are what keep other people alive
Sheep
Gift Giving
Nope, Christmas is about the excitement of searching for presents for my family, wrap them up in the awesomest wrapping paper, decorating the cutest tree and the excitement of watching them open their gift. The happiness that someone loves you, of reliving your childhood memories 😉
You know I just don't get all this Christmas craze anymore. I liked as a kid, but now it's just "meh". It's nice going home to see family and old friends but all this shopping, decorating and enthusiasm is a bit much. If I had any left leanings I'd just say it's all a capitalist plot to spend money you probably don't have.
Load More Replies...Definitely better than to give whatever out of obligation. At least you know the person will make good use of it.
To say it with Yuval Harari; when the time comes and humans will be redundant because of a.i. augmented biospecies - we will still be needed as CONSUMERS. Yay!
Clubbing
Never did get the point of those. Bad lighting, crappy (and too loud) music, expensive (and probably fake) alcohol and filthy restrooms full of drug addicts and used condoms. And I'm supposed to enjoy that? No thanks.
A good night out is me going out and getting ice cream then coming back home and eating said ice cream while binge watching a tv show with my cat. Livin the dream
Load More Replies...Either foreign guys do best, or she wanted to be abducted, taken onto a spaceship, and escape this godawful (in her opinion) planet.
Ratings
I hate all these "rate-me" systems. In many cases the rating depends only from your personal opinion, e.g.: I don't like talkative waiters, so I'd rate them lower than my more outgoing friends. Unfortunately, there are workplaces in which bonuses and other benefits depends from customers' rating. I know I'm not very obiective (and many people are not) so I try to avoid situations when I have to rate other people and I don't look at ratings when I have to choose something.
Emotional Honesty
People are not ready (or willing) to talk to you at a deeper level so you stay in the shallows
Mob mentality is when a person in a large group does something they normally would nit do in the thought that it’s not THEM doing it it’s the GROUP
Load More Replies...Costumes
Under that logic only white people can wear pants or Jean's
Load More Replies...If we took out "offensive" and all it's variants from dictionary. We will probably drown ourselves from crying.. Little sissies.
Breakups
It's often the one doing the stabbing who's then got the audacity to ask about still being 'friends'
"The audacity"? Sometimes things just doesn't work off. It doesn't necessarily mean you dislike the other person or want to end your acquaintance - you just don't want to be in a relationship anymore. This decision is painful, hard and often harmful. Yet, as for me, ending a bad or unsatisfactory relationship isalso an act of courage, maturity and honesty. If you spend long time together and if you still care about that another person (even while not loving them), why would you have to throw them out of your life? There is nothing bad in asking about staying friends.
Load More Replies...Approaching Women
this is what happens when you judge by looks
The Gym
Yeah but if you see his arms you can see that he also works on his strength.
